What just happened… in your mind?
(LOL) (Giggles) (Chuckles)
No, like, I just read that poem — (Laughing)
I had a Vision…
What was the Vision?
You… Nude Face with your pustular acne, and indoor sunglasses, just showing up…
Where did I show up to?
I was… in another department… at work…
Oh?
Yes, and you came up to me, with some baby clothes.
Baby clothes?!
Yes, and I wanted to make small talk — I smiled, firstly, of course —
You smiled like you normally do to all customers?
(Head shaking) No. Not that smile. I smiled the “I know it’s you” smile…
I’m not sure if I’ve seen it…
Well, you’ll know when you see it.
Okay? So you smiled at me, and…?
And we go through the usual retail script. We do that for a bit, you pay. There’s no other customers around so we can get away with just a few more minutes of an interaction… Because you’ve paid — the transaction is done, as far as my employer is concerned. And there’s no other customers around, you could be asking me more questions about a new transaction — or whatever, it doesn’t matter. We can keep talking for a little while…
And what are we saying?
Well, I’m asking you if you have kids? Is that why you bought the baby clothes?
(Smiles) Do you ask ALL your customers personal questions like this?
(Head shaking) Not at all. Never.
Oh, I see… so it’d only be a question to me? Nude Face with my pustular acne and indoor sunglasses…
Yes… and… I don’t know what your answer is. I can’t even remember… somehow, this conversation moves along to you asking if I want to have a coffee with you after my shift.
Oh? I was that suave?
(Giggles) Yes… yes… you just… made your moves. You just asked.
And I am trying to suss this out a little bit more like, “Like a date or as friends?”
(Laughing) Like a date, then?
I’m not even sure — in real life — what I would want, in that moment. I’m not even sure what’s the right answer if this really happens in real life… maybe it doesn’t even matter.
I show up.
Which café?!
David Jones.
David Jones?! That specific?
Yep… we’re in a corner booth of the café at David Jones…
Oh, this is still part of your fantasy? It has to be specifically a corner booth at David Jones café?
(Nodding) (Smiling)
And then…?
Well — somehow, before that happened though — there was definitely something else in the banter that I knew it was you — but you hadn’t yet taken off your indoor sunglasses. By the time we get to the booth — you’re finally taking off your sunglasses.
Oh? I did that?
(Nodding) Yes, and you’re holding my hands in your hands…
Oh? I see… I’ll be caressing them…
(Nodding) And it’s very nice. And… we’ve already paid — David Jones café you just order and pay, and then you sit down…
Uhuh… (Where is this going?)
And then we just start making out — but then the waitress is like, delivering our food and coffees! And she’s kind of awkward about it because we’re MAKING OUT IN A PUBLIC SPACE!
(Laughing) Oh… wow… so embarrassing (wink wink)
(Giggles) And then… because we got “interrupted” from our making out… because… you can’t diffuse that flame while it’s already lit… I’m just like… “Where are you staying? At a hotel nearby?!”
And you’re very confidently, like, “Yes. Let’s go” — and we just leave. We don’t even take one sip of our ordered coffees, we don’t even take one bite of food — and I’m usually STARVING at the end of my work shifts! You’re basically leading me by my hand and waist and we’re off…
We’re at the hotel?
Yes… we’re in the hotel room… and… you’re so fucking good.
(Laughing)
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How do you know — in this fantasy — that I’ll be good to you? How do you know you can trust me?
Because… you’ve already involved so many mutual friends… if you were to hurt me, wouldn’t they all be… accomplices, too?
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